Sometimes I think we can overcomplicate things. Particularly things that were never terribly complex but we feel like couldn’t possibly be this simple. In working with people to train them how to disciple leaders through the vehicle of Huddle, I sometimes think we might fall prey to this in our Huddles. The 90 minutes we spend [...]

Been working on a white paper that 3DM and The Order of Mission is releasing in a few weeks that has me thinking about the Gospel quite a bit, lately. Here is a quick excerpt from it: Currently, more than 50% of the people living in the United States claim to be Christians. But we [...]

One of the things that we at 3DM coach people to do is to start a Pilot Missional Community before launching any real ones. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mega-church, medium sized church or church plant. It’s not enough to explain the theory of Missional Communities for people who have NEVER experienced anything like [...]

There are a lot of things I’m privileged to live into because I’m part of the 3DM team here in Pawleys Island. That’s really not lost on me. But there is one thing that stands out above all of the rest and it was particularly highlighted to me this morning. You see, every morning, everyone [...]

Last year I wrote two pretty popular blog posts that started to dive into spiritual growth. You can read them here: What does “going deep” actually mean? | Part 1 What does “going deep” actually mean? | Part 2   Lately, I’ve been thinking on this topic again as we at 3DM continue to have [...]

If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you’ve probably picked up that church planting is a regular fixture on my mind. As someone who planted a church, coaches church planters and whose hobby is researching ideas of re-imagining church planter training, planting and funding…you could say I’m a bit of a church planter geek. [...]

A quick observation from what I’m seeing in some of the people I’m coaching right now and experiencing in my own life. For many Christian leaders, a sad reality is that there aren’t the scriptural rhythms of Rest and Work that define their reality. Rather than working from a place of rest, they push and [...]

If you follow this blog regularly at all, you know that church planting is one of the dominant conversations. Last fall I spent a large amount of time writing about re-imagining church planter training, etc. You can read some of those posts here. The last few weeks I’ve had conversations with a number of different [...]

In my first post in this two-post series I brought up the oft-noticed problem that every church seems to have: What do we do with the “radicals” that scare everyone else in the church? The overarching comment I made in the first post was that leaders tend to make one of two mistakes. Either they [...]

Recently I was leading a Learning Community in Minnesota with Jo Saxton and one of the topics that came up was what to do with the “radicals” that every church seems to have. You know the type. On any given day they can feel like you’re greatest gift and your greatest curse. Burning within them [...]